Just listen to sniveling Mr. Kerry after his meeting with a chuckling Mr. Lavrov. Do you hear what I hear? A song high above the trees, with a voice as big as the sea declaring America’s shirking of any moral responsibility towards the children of Syria, just in time for Christmas. Pray for peace, people everywhere, and let your conscience sleep.

"The United States and our partners are not seeking so-called regime change," Kerry told reporters in the Russian capital after meeting President Vladimir Putin. A major international conference on Syria would take place later this week in New York, Kerry announced… But after a day of discussions with Assad's key international backer, Kerry said the focus now is "not on our differences about what can or cannot be done immediately about Assad." Rather, it is on facilitating a peace process in which "Syrians will be making decisions for the future of Syria."… Kerry said, "No one should be forced to choose between a dictator and being plagued by terrorists." However, he described the Syrian opposition's demand that Assad must leave as soon as peace talks begin as a "nonstarting position, obviously."

And what Assad has accomplished with Russia’s and Iran’s help is even worse, much worse. Yet this is the person we are asked to differ judgement on because asking for his ouster is a “nonstarting position, obviously.” Obviously.

One also has to wonder whether Shia militias and death squads operating in Syria and who remains responsible for more carnage than even Daesh and Al-Nusra will ever get classified as terrorist organizations, as indeed they should. Considering Mr. Obviously’s fondness for the Shirk ‘N’ Shift, one should not hold one’s breaths.

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About Ammar

Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian-American author and pro-democracy activist based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is the founder of the Tharwa Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to democracy promotion. His personal website and entries from his older blogs can be accessed here.

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The Delirica is a companion blog to the Daily Digest of Global Delirium meant to highlight certain DDGD items by publishing them as separate posts. Also, the Delirica republishes articles by Ammar that appeared on other sites since 2016. Older articles can be found on Ammar's internet archive: Ammar.World